Edward Ormondroyd





Edward Ormondroyd

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Edward Ormondroyd grew up in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. During WWII he served onboard a destroyer escort, participating in the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima.

After the war he attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in English. Later he went back for a master's degree in library science.

He lived in Berkely for 25 years, working at various jobs while he wrote children's books. He and his wife Joan moved to upstate New York in 1970. They live in the country near Ithaca, in a house designed and partly built by Edward. Their seven children are all grown and independent. They have two grandsons and a granddaughter. Edward's interests include studying piano, gardening, boo...more


Average rating: 4.18 · 414 ratings · 81 reviews · 10 distinct works
David and the Phoenix
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 1957 — 20 editions
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Time at the Top
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1963 — 6 editions
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All In Good Time
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings4 editions
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Theodore: The Adventures of...
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4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1966 — 4 editions
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Castaways on Long Ago
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings6 editions
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Broderick
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1969 — 4 editions
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Time at the Top and All in ...
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2011
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Imagination Greene
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating2 editions
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Theodore's Rival
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1971 — 3 editions
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Johnny Castleseed
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